Class mom communicates with her law firm work email but forgets to inform teacher's birthday

[Anonymous]

Never heard of celebrating a teacher’s birthday either, in public or private. Seems silly!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, law firm signatures and titles are often automatic, so I doubt she is purposefully adding. My firm has blocked Gmail on our laptops, so if class mom needs to send emails that aren’t doable from a phone, that’s probably why she’s using her work email. And if she’s a partner, she’s busy. Why isn’t her husband stepping up?

Lol why blame the husband. He didn’t volunteer to be class mom - she did. Does your husband do your work?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not normal to celebrate the teacher’s birthday

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+1 I’ve never once seen this done.

I see this in all my kids private schools. I wonder if this is a public vs private school thing.

No, it’s not. Each school has its own culture, whether public or private. Our public elementary has very engaged parents. There’s a parent liaison who coordinates with all room parents. Each room parent receives communications they’re supposed to pass on to all class parents about grade-specific things. They also distribute a form to room parents for the teacher to fill out at the beginning of the year. It asks when their birthday is, and then asks all their favorites: restaurant, candy, dessert, lunch, stores where they shop, hobbies, things they collect, etc. Room parents then collect money from parents and use the form to celebrate the teacher’s birthday, holidays, teacher appreciation, end of year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:To be fair, law firm signatures and titles are often automatic, so I doubt she is purposefully adding. My firm has blocked Gmail on our laptops, so if class mom needs to send emails that aren’t doable from a phone, that’s probably why she’s using her work email. And if she’s a partner, she’s busy. Why isn’t her husband stepping up?

Lol why blame the husband. He didn’t volunteer to be class mom - she did. Does your husband do your work?

PP here, my gripe is mostly that OP blamed class mom for not volunteering, but said nothing of her spouse. I assume if one of them volunteered for things, OP would feel the family is contributing in-person in a fair way compared to the rest of the class parents. And frankly, yes, for school things, my husband and I share the load, and he in fact does more than I do because I’m often busy and have less flexibility, as I imagine is the case for class mom. Is there even a class dad position available? If not, should examine that inequity more closely.

[Anonymous]

Failed to inform you of the what?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not normal to celebrate the teacher’s birthday

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+1 I’ve never once seen this done.

I see this in all my kids private schools. I wonder if this is a public vs private school thing.

My kids are in public, I went to 12 years of private. Have never seen this happen in either.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not normal to celebrate the teacher’s birthday

Plus 1

+1 I’ve never once seen this done.

I see this in all my kids private schools. I wonder if this is a public vs private school thing.

My kids are in public, I went to 12 years of private. Have never seen this happen in either.

Things are different now. Parents seem to be much more engaged with the schools than in the previous generations. I don't remember ever having any theme days like wear a sports jersey, pajama day, dress like a book character, but that doesn't mean those things don't happen now. As several have noted, it's thing in some schools.

[Anonymous]

The only teacher birthday celebration is giving her/him a gift card. Then room parents just basically let the class know how much was given to the teacher.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would you be upset if her email signature made her a paralegal instead? What about if she herself was just a teacher?

As for the birthday, I don't recall us ever hearing about a teachers birthday.

I say good for her for being a volunteer while also having a full time job! I appreciate anyone who takes the time to volunteer.

This. And she is volunteering her time the way she is able to. She does not need to go there in person to send classroom emails and sign up geniuses. Volunteer for next year class parent, write from your gmail, and spend hours in person at the school events.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not normal to celebrate the teacher’s birthday

Plus 1

+1 I’ve never once seen this done.

I see this in all my kids private schools. I wonder if this is a public vs private school thing.

No, it’s not. Each school has its own culture, whether public or private. Our public elementary has very engaged parents. There’s a parent liaison who coordinates with all room parents. Each room parent receives communications they’re supposed to pass on to all class parents about grade-specific things. They also distribute a form to room parents for the teacher to fill out at the beginning of the year. It asks when their birthday is, and then asks all their favorites: restaurant, candy, dessert, lunch, stores where they shop, hobbies, things they collect, etc. Room parents then collect money from parents and use the form to celebrate the teacher’s birthday, holidays, teacher appreciation, end of year.

Yes, this is how we over-educated SAHMs keep engaged.

[Anonymous]

My kids are 17 and 12 and we've NEVER celebrated a teacher's birthday.

You're quite obviously jealous of the "partner at law" title, OP, and you don't even know that firms add titles like this and their employees don't have control over it.

How very stupid and nasty you are.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It’s not normal to celebrate the teacher’s birthday

Plus 1

+1 I’ve never once seen this done.

I see this in all my kids private schools. I wonder if this is a public vs private school thing.

My kids are in public, I went to 12 years of private. Have never seen this happen in either.

Things are different now. Parents seem to be much more engaged with the schools than in the previous generations. I don't remember ever having any theme days like wear a sports jersey, pajama day, dress like a book character, but that doesn't mean those things don't happen now. As several have noted, it's thing in some schools.

I didn't say it wasn't. I'm just saying that its a school thing, not a public vs private thing. And we had all of those theme days growing up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 17 and 12 and we've NEVER celebrated a teacher's birthday.

You're quite obviously jealous of the "partner at law" title, OP, and you don't even know that firms add titles like this and their employees don't have control over it.

How very stupid and nasty you are.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My kids are 17 and 12 and we've NEVER celebrated a teacher's birthday.

You're quite obviously jealous of the "partner at law" title, OP, and you don't even know that firms add titles like this and their employees don't have control over it.

How very stupid and nasty you are.

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+2. And you can't swing a cat without hitting a lawyer around here. This is not brag worthy, so I doubt the class mom is trying to brag or impress anyone. My DH's company bans gmail, etc. on his work computer...maybe it's similar for OP's firm, and she has to use her work email to send emails during the day.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not normal to celebrate the teacher’s birthday

Yes, it is.

No, it's not.

Neither I, my spouse, nor my kids have ever celebrated a teacher's birthday. It's not the norm.